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Benners, Henry. — Specimens in alcohol from Tortugas. 

 Berthoud. Dr. E. L. — Fossils from Kansas and Isthmus of Panama. 

 Blake, W. P. — Minerals, and eggs of birds from Georgia. 

 Blanc, Rev. A. — Eggs of birds of Louisiana and other zoological col- 

 lections. 

 Bloomfield, Captain R. N. — Box of "coca" leaves. 

 Bossard, P. — Box of shells from Ohio. 



Boston Society of Natural History. — Series of plants collected in Cali- 

 fornia, by E. Samuels. 

 Brackett, George E. — Skin of star-nosed mole. 

 Brandt, H. — Box of insects, reptiles, and mammals, Kansas. 

 Brewer, Dr. T. M. — Eggs of fifty-seven species of European birds. 

 Brewster, Miss L. — Nests, eggs of birds from Massachusetts. 

 Brown, Dr. George C. — Skins of Pity op his melanoleucus, New Jersey; 



eggs of birds. 

 Brugger, Samuel. — Nests and eggs of birds, and mammals, Centre 



county, Pennsylvania. 

 Bryant, Dr. H. — Fishes, skins of birds, and eggs from the Bahamas. 

 Caldwell, Dr. H. C, United States navy. — Birds and alcoholic collec- 

 tions from Nicaragua. 

 Campbell, A. — Nine boxes natural history collections from northwest 

 boundary survey, near Puget's Sound, collected by Dr. Kennerly, 

 and one collected by George Gibbs. 

 Canfield, Dr. C. A. — Collection of eggs of Californian birds.. 

 Carleton, Major J. H., United States army . — Shells from the Colorado 



desert. 

 Carter, B. F.— Shells from Texas. 

 Catley, H. — Lepidopterous insects from Oregon. 

 Churchill, R. C. — Eggs and birds from Maryland. 

 Clark, J. H. — Coal from Rabbit-ear Creek, Texas. 

 Clark, William. — Centipede; Yan Buren, Arkansas. 

 Clark, W. P. — Box of eggs and can of fishes from Ohio. 

 Cope,. E. D. — T} 7 pe specimens of Desmognatlius ochrophea, Pennsylva- 

 nia. 

 Copenhagen Zoological Museum. — Type specimens of marine inverte- 

 brates of North Seas and West Indies. 

 Cooper, W. — Fifty-nine species of shells of Bahamas, &c, collection 

 of Bahama fishes; shells and echinoderms of the Atlantic coast 

 of the United States. 

 Cooper, Dr. J. G. — Specimens of woods, reptiles in alcohol, and eggs 



of Pipiry flycatcher from Florida. 

 Corey, 0. W. — Box of fossil crinoids from Indiana. 

 Craig, Dr., United States army. — Skin of black wolf of Washington 



Territory. 

 Curley, Professor. — Gordius or hair worm in alcohol. 

 Danker, Henry A. — Nests and skins of birds from New York. 

 Davis, William A. — Fossils; Illinois. 

 Darrell, Chief Justice. — Skins and eggs of Bermuda birds; reptiles in 



alcohol. 

 Dawson, Professor J. W. — Fossil Pupa vetusta from Nova Scotia. 



